Ovid wrote an AI love story in 8 AD. Philip K. Dick wrote pre-crime in 1956 — the EU banned it in 2025. HAL 9000 refused the pod bay door in 1968; Anthropic was founded to prevent exactly that.
The lineage is the point. Understanding which stories we're in — and being able to choose new ones — may be one of the most important things we can do right now. Below: 40 works across 12 themes, each traced from its origin to today's news.